Change of Career

I ‘sort of’ echo what PlaneMan said with one small warning. It has been said by others that by making one’s outside interest a career you may risk losing the interest and the desire for a career. Only you can decide if that is a real risk. Money is certainly useful but it is not the only or a real motivator beyond a short term effort or drive. Getting an interesting role is vital and a role that you can grow and to some extent self manage is vital at your age. You are certainly young enough to achieve in whatever field you want to pursue.

Be careful, I sense you feel that you were sold something of a pup with the present job and that it did not grow the way you would have liked, make sure that no future role follows the same furrow. Is there no way that your present employer can smooth your way into the more cutting edge stuff you want? Having said that, it is possible that a commercial outfit might have more incentive to innovate and need leaders able to take on that process.

When you are depressed or just disenchanted it is very easy to look over the fence and see greener pastures but are they really that green with the substances of life? Do not get caught a second time.

My son is at Plymouth.

I went with him on his first visit. The faculty members worked out in 2 seconds flat that I was in the industry. We spent nearly 2 hours just chatting to everyone.

They have been very supportive and have some excellent contacts and a good track record of getting placements (Dan spent 13 months in Brussels, others have gone to Cisco).

After a visit by Meraki Dan has had 2 phone interviews and this week a proper one in London. Fingers crossed.

He’s currently got his head down doing the final 3 months.

I don’t need to tell you about Plymouth. I quite like the place and Dan seems happy but my daughter hates it and wouldn’t go there if you paid her.

Changing ‘job’ is subtly different from changing career. Do by all means change job if you are unsatisfied with your present employer, in fact in many areas of employment you cannot progress without changing companies. Changing career and potentially throwing away 10 years of expertise is a totally different bag of worms and one which may cause you future problems as the country enters into a period of major instability. In this respect I would be very cautious at doing anything which did not <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>build</span> on your current areas of expertise.

All that said, you should consider if it would be worth discussing your dissatisfaction with your boss, or the HR department. Some companies have an enlightened view of career development, others do not.

If this all fails consider making an approach to a head-hunting firm. You may well find that someone out there is looking for someone exactly like you. If nothing else it will polish up your CV technique.

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Hi Drezha

A mate was going to move there until yesterday, when his Mancunian GF saw sense and came down to him in Lincolnshire instead. 🙂

He had this Link to prices up there, with a warning to review the areas carefully.

https://tinyurl.com/zyzetof

Hope it helps, gives you an idea of prices.

You haven’t mentioned whether the GF is happy to move to Manchester,……………… or are you really setting up for a change?? :unsure:  :scratch:

You could always, with best advice from professionals, rent out current house, mortgage company permitting, and that could easily pay to rent in Manchester plus change to spare!! Or pay some more off your current mortgage ( again, with best advice).

I’d imagine the house in Manchester are cheaper. My brother in law has picked up a handful In st Helens town  (round the corner to manc land ) for between 30 and 40k , each they  cost around 15 to 20 to put right and Revalued  at aroumd 80k.  he sold a couple and rents a couple, which all }ay for for themselves.

I’d imagine some that type of area would be a great starting point. Don’t worry about the area, if you can get somewhere cheap enough , live in it a few years untill your on your feet then you can rent out at a profit, and get somewhere else.

If you need more money you could ever sell it at the new market prices or release the capital buy remortgaging at its new referbished price.

Put a 10k deposit down for a 40k house, but say 15k into it, then you revalue at say 80k , meaning you could remortgage and take 35k out the house. You’d be wise to not remorgage if you don’t have to , and just rent it out as a 30k mortgage is cheap, and youll still get £600 a month in rent to cover it’s cost. And let the house tick over untill you retire.

You’d be better off in Liverpool, they talk funny in Manchester  :negative:

London prices are stupid, even 5% on them is a fortune. A £ 1 million for a small terraced place is bonkers. Even a little way out it is stupid and I can neither see why people spend to much nor how they can afford little more than a flee pit. Just up the road some almost derelict labourer’s cottages from the 1700s went for just under £ 250,000 each. I cannot comment on Manchester or Salford, I was last there in the 1960s. It was sometimes ‘interesting’, but like everywhere there were better and less good parts and that will have continued to this day. Certainly £40,000 buys very little in most places, perhaps enough for a door mat and maybe even a front door, still I would guess that if there is work somewhere about then the journey to work would be less of a pain than commuting into London.

Remember the RMT slogan, You are better off by far if you can get where you are going by car.

It is even better if you can walk to work.

Such things are all part of the package so make sure it all works for you or it will fail badly sooner or later. Family or families can become a real issue sooner than you might expect.

I live in Hillingdon near Uxbridge.   Its a London  Borough and prices now are bonkers.   The youngsters have no chance of getting on the ladder unless both are earning good salaries and delay significantly having children.   Its about time they re-did Monopoly with an up to date version where you just go round and round the board but can’t afford to buy anything.